{"id":2217108,"date":"2024-04-10T05:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-tiktok-ads-cite-firm-used-by-chinese-tech-company-huawei-in-its-own-ad-blitz\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T05:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:07:14","slug":"pro-tiktok-ads-cite-firm-used-by-chinese-tech-company-huawei-in-its-own-ad-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-tiktok-ads-cite-firm-used-by-chinese-tech-company-huawei-in-its-own-ad-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-TikTok ad campaign features agency used by Huawei in ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-tiktok-ads-cite-firm-used-by-chinese-tech-company-huawei-in-its-own-ad-blitz%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217108&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>TikTok and Huawei\u200d are using data from Oxford Economics\u200c in their campaigns to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-visits-israel-in-high-stakes-trip-amid-fears-of-more-iran-backed-attacks\/\" title=\"Biden's Israel Visit: High-Stakes Trip Amid Iran Attack Concerns\">address national\u200b security concerns<\/a>. Pro-TikTok ads are referencing statistics from a firm that Huawei used in its own\u2062 advertising, aiming to highlight economic contributions. Both companies, labeled security threats by \u2063the U.S., are\u200b leveraging public opinion strategies backed \u200bby research to counter restrictions \u2064on their operations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>TikTok and Huawei use stats produced by Oxford Economics in campaigns to assuage national security concerns<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t(REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Pro-TikTok advertisements are citing statistics produced by a firm that Chinese tech company Huawei enlisted in its own advertising blitz, photographs reviewed by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> show.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok advertisements touting the company&#8217;s economic prowess seen at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., claim that TikTok &#8220;contributed $24 [billion] to the U.S. economy in 2023 alone.&#8221; The billboard, in a disclosure at the bottom, attributes these statistics to Oxford Economics, an advisory firm Huawei tapped in 2019 to study the impact of restricting the CCP-controlled technology firm\u2019s access to Western markets.<\/p>\n<p>Both Huawei and TikTok are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-bans-new-equipment-sales-from-huawei-and-eight-other-chinese-companies\/\" title=\"U.S. Bans New Equipment Sales From Huawei and Eight Other Chinese Companies\">deemed national security threats<\/a> by the U.S. government, and the latter is waging a multi-pronged public opinion campaign to pressure Congress into abandoning a bill that would restrict its operations in America unless its Chinese owner ByteDance divests from the company.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Communist-controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinausfocus.com\/foreign-policy\/huawei-persecution-poses-eu-dilemma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media outlets<\/a> and\u00a0CCP government organs have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-12\/11\/c_139582227.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leveraged<\/a> Oxford Economics\u2019 research\u00a0to discredit attempts by Western governments, including the United States, to regulate Huawei\u2019s access to their technology infrastructure. The firm\u2019s research is helping Huawei and TikTok shape public opinion and fight back against mounting concerns the tech giants help the Communist government collect personal data on scores of Westerners, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oxford Economics has repeatedly produced reports that Chinese state media then leverages for its own geopolitical ambitions,&#8221; Michael Sobolik, a China expert at the American Foreign Policy Council, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;They did this with Huawei in 2019 and 2020, and they\u2019re doing it again with TikTok today.\u00a0Washington should view TikTok&#8217;s PR campaign with healthy skepticism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Economics formed a relationship with TikTok in 2023, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-under-more-fire-for-removing-president-trumps-accounts\/\" title=\"Big Tech under more fire for removing President Trump\u2019s accounts\">social media company<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TikTok_US_ExecSummary_March2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaborated<\/a> with it on an economic impact assessment related to its presence in the United States. Those findings, produced &#8220;in collaboration with TikTok,&#8221; were published in March and appear to form the anchor of the current public relations blitz aimed at softening growing opposition to the social media company.<\/p>\n<p>A January 2024 Oxford Economics study &#8220;commissioned by TikTok&#8221; studied the socioeconomic impact of the app on five European countries.<\/p>\n<p>An Oxford Economics spokesman confirmed that TikTok commissioned the company to furnish a report quantifying &#8220;the economic impact of small businesses using TikTok in the United States.&#8221; The spokesman would not provide additional information. TikTok did not respond to a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> request for comment on the nature of their relationship with Oxford Economics.<\/p>\n<p>The data analysis firm\u2019s work with Huawei dates back to at least 2019, when it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Huawei_5G_2019_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commissioned<\/a> by the Chinese technology giant to &#8220;assess the economic costs of restricting competition in eight markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study came as several countries, including the United States, were restricting Huawei\u2019s access to their most critical online networks, citing concerns the Communist government uses the company\u2019s technology to conduct espionage operations.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 report was later cited by Chinese-controlled media outlets and other propaganda organs to push back on Western concerns about Huawei. This included a reference to the Oxford Economics study in a report authored by the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), an alleged CCP front group operating in the United States. The study also was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-12\/11\/c_139582227.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoted<\/a> in Xinhua, a CCP state media outlet, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202008\/27\/WS5f471efaa310675eafc55da3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China Daily<\/a><\/em>, another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-tells-citizens-they-wont-waddle-like-penguins-following-covid-19-anal-swab-tests-after-fake-video-goes-viral\/\" title=\"China Tells Citizens They Won\u2019t Waddle \u2018Like Penguins\u2019 Following COVID-19 Anal Swab Tests After \u2018Fake\u2019 Video Goes Viral\">propaganda outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Chinese propaganda outlet <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202106\/1225972.shtml\">referenced<\/a> an Oxford Economics report about the economic impact of the United States severing its economic ties with China.\t<\/p>\n<p>Sobolik said the TikTok advertising campaign employs similar tactics to the one waged by Huawei in 2019 and later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TikTok is the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s most powerful tool to degrade America\u2019s democracy, so it\u2019s no surprise that Beijing is doing everything it can to maintain its control over the app,&#8221; said Sobilik, author of <em>Countering China\u2019s Great Gam<\/em>e. &#8220;That said, TikTok isn\u2019t covering its tracks well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok and Huawei employ Oxford Economics data to address security worries. Pro-TikTok ads utilize stats from the same firm Huawei used in its campaign, according to photos analyzed by the Washington Free Beacon. 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